Re: lexical_cast and hex values

On 12/20/01 1:32 PM, "rogeeff" wrote:

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can I you lexical_cast to convert string "0x16" to 22?

Not without defining your own type to cast to.

The behavior of lexical_cast is limited to what the stream input functions do by default. The operator>> for int will parse the "0" if

--- In Boost-Users@y..., Darin Adler wrote: presented with

the string "0x16".

On the other hand, there's nothing preventing you from using lexical_cast to cast to another type, in which case you can make it do anything you want, since it will call the operator>> overload for that type.

This solution I found either. But thank you anyway.

-- Darin

Gennadiy.